I am totally in love with the illustrations of Dutch artist Raymond Lemstra. Inspired by tribal and primitive masks and totems, and mixed with a little touch of pop and Japanese culture and you get these very unique drawings.
Masks everywhere ~ in every shape, medium and form are inspiring our curiosity. Illustrator Iain Macarthur has a nice series of extremely intricately illustrated masks and headpieces that I wanted to add to our archive on the upcoming trend of masks.
Since the masquerade ball and the Vogue Paris editorial, I feel am like I seeing masks everywhere, even if we spotted the mask trend more than 1 year ago, it looks like its really developing now. This is an editorial by Panos Yiapanis and photographed by Willy Vanderperre for Vogue Hommes International #12.
It was a fashion fantasy explosion! The party of year (if not the last 10 years), everyone in the fashion industry was at Carine Roitfeld‘s masquerade ball party inside the sumptuous Hôtel Pozzo Di Borgo, celebrating 90 years of Vogue Paris. From every single top models to Anna Dello Russo, Jean Paul Gauliter, Marc Jacobs, [...]
No famous models or photographers for the Patrizia Pepe F/W 2010 Ad campaign. Instead the faces of models are covered with different accessories – mask, dog, balloons, boom-box, bags and other interesting attributes. The idea behind the campaign and the mysterious Who Is Patrizia? slogan is
The visual concept behind the collections of fashion designer Nicolas Petrou is graphically well executed ! His latest presentation of Men collection Petrou\Man during NY Fashion week, which saw models in a plethora of masked jumpsuits with Petrou’s casual tailoring fused with active sportswear. Interesting… Styled by Robbie Spencer: the Dazed & Confused fashion editor [...]
I really like this tribal mask-like serie illustrated by Indian-born Illustrator Nina Chakrabarti . The series below was made for the free artsy UK magazine, I Want You.
Stunning mask photography by Richard Burbridge published in the current issue of Swedish Livraison Magazine.
Its crazy how fast it goes now, an epidemic and soo many surf on the trend. Like Japanese Illustrator Yoriko Yoshida who created some really cool mask to fight the Swine Flue with Style. He designed a lot of them, you should check them all here…
Ahah Fashion Swine Flue Mask – Fighting Swine Flu with the Power of Fashion Design
Sculptor Silvia B. does it again with an installation by the name of Les beaux et les plus beaux, a group of masked boys clad in white who are depicted playing with their white toys. From a distance, the figures appear…